Magical Cast Members: Finding Belle

Dear Cast Member from Magic Kingdom's Toon Town Fair,

It has been a long time since you made our little girl's day and, possibly, our entire vacation - we're talking all the way back to September 2010. You were working with Belle at her Meet & Greet location right there in Toon Town Fair but, as we discovered when we entered the room to meet her, Cinderella, and Aurora, we learned that, for whatever reason, she was not available to meet at that particular time. Cinderella was there. Aurora was there. There was a big empty spot where Belle was supposed to be! Her favorite princess being Belle, all my daughter had wanted to do for that last activity before we left the park to head back to the airport and home, was to give Belle and hug and say, "goodbye." So, after happily hugging the other two princesses, when my little girl got to that last, empty spot, her heart sank. "Where's Belle?" she asked us. We honestly didn't know where Belle was. There was no time to wait and find out, though - we had a plane to catch.

We made our way out of the Meet & Greet, through the shop at the exit, down the path leading back to the main road, and then began to head out of Toontown Fair. All the while, my daughter, broken hearted, tears streaming down her face, just kept saying, "I want to say, 'goodbye,' to Belle." And that's when I first noticed you. Out of the corner of my eye, I saw you running out of the shop at the exit of the Meet & Greet, though I didn't think much of what you were doing at the time. Sure enough, though, you came running down the path, turned the corner, and headed straight for us. "Come with me," you said. So we went. You ushered us into a hallway, not intended for guest use, and began pulling curtains closed. "Wait right here." And then, out stepped Belle, in her big yellow ball gown with a big ol' smile on her face. "I heard my little friend calling my name!" she said. My daughter's face lit up! Ah, who am I kidding - All of faces lit up and, now, it was my wife and I who were crying. We were so touched at the effort made by both Belle and of course, YOU, the Cast Member who chased us down, and it is a memory that we will keep with us forever.

Thank you, from the bottom of our hearts!

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